Description
Audience
Any professional who has client contact would benefit from this seminar. This includes the branch staff, commercial and consumer lending staff, trust and investment staff, and mortgage staff.
Award Application and Career Pathing
The Outside Calling School applies toward the completion of the Outside Calling School Certificate.
Description
The 2-lesson Outside Calling School will deliver the most up-to-date selling techniques to help you and your company deliver loan and deposit results even during this “new-normal” economy. You will go through the selling process to identify how to gain the trust of your client, gain a larger share of wallet, and sell what your client truly needs. We will also address how to effectively manage the pricing discussion, how to overcome objections, and how research and profiling the client/ prospect will improve targeting, prospecting and presentations.
The school will focus on three main areas:
- Outside Calling
- Negotiation Skills and Selling at Higher Margins
- Researching and Profiling Your Clients and Prospects
Agenda
- Calling successes & challenges
- STEP 1: Pre-Call Planning
- Getting out of the office both virtually and in person
- Call planning on top clients & prospects
- Gaining the virtual or in person appointment
- The initial meeting
- More, Better, Different, Less Clinic
- Do we use technology or meet in person?
- Plan what to bring on the call
- Plan bridging and introductory comments
- STEP 2: The Virtual or In-Person Encounter
- Get them talking!
- Listening and communicating how you can help
- Making a recommendation and asking for the business
- Earning referrals
- STEP 3: Post Call Follow Up
- Expanding your notes to capture the call
- Calendaring follow up activities
- Drafting a thank you note
- Assessing the call
- Compete on anything other than price
- The value proposition?
- Premium pricing
- Negotiating techniques
- War Games – Handling objections
- Draft an Action Plan for skills transfer
Available Dates
(Notify CFTEA Office of your choice of upcoming class of your choice by putting in the note section of your order.)
2024 Sessions
- July 11 and July 18 | 9:00 am – Noon EST
- July 10 and July 31 | Noon – 3:00 pm EST
- October 17 and October 24 | 9:00 am – Noon EST
- October 2 and October 16 | Noon – 3:00 pm EST
CFT Training Program
2023.08